
Coiled
Description
This collection covers eight years of unrest, personal and communal, beginning with stubborn patriotic certainty, a faith in neighborliness and American ideals, and ending with something broader: an alliance with the matriarch, Mother Nature, and the ways she elides ideology or definition. The essays shift perspective to focus on subjects too often overlooked: unwritten histories of xenophobia in the American West, the rights of rivers everywhere, queerness in middle age, troubled human kin, and our more-than-human kin--snakes, fish, bears, sea lions, and a beloved robotic cat. These essays balance wonder at the world around us and urgency at the threats to it, but they add one more imperative: to focus on kinship--on the people we care for and those who care for us, and the more-than-human too.
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Ana Maria Spagna is the author of Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey (Bison Books, 2010) as well as several other books about nature, work, community, and history including, most recently, Pushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre. She is a professor of English at Wenatchee Valley College and MFA Faculty in Nature Writing in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University.